NEW YORK — Several hot-button legal inquiries loom over former President Donald Trump -- everything from election interference and misuse of classified documents to defamation of a writer after an alleged rape.
However, the indictment and arraignment of Trump earlier this week, the first for an ex-president in U.S. history, has drawn the nation's attention to a rarely discussed white-collar financial crime: falsifying business records.
"This is the business capital of the world," he said."The bedrock, in fact the basis, for business integrity and a well-functioning business marketplace is true and accurate record keeping." "Every crime requires both an act and a criminal intent behind the act," Matthew Galluzo, a criminal defense attorney in New York City and a former prosecutor in the New York County District Attorney's Office, told ABC News.
The standard is akin to the legal treatment of trespassing, Konta added, noting that the mere act of trespassing is a relatively minor crime but the charge becomes far more serious if a trespasser attempts to steal. "The statute itself seems to suggest you just have to prove he was trying to break a law," Gallluzo said."Defense attorneys will say, 'Well, you have to tell us what law and prove that law specifically.'"
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